Saturday, December 18, 2010

A sunny cold day and some fat quarters

First off, I won some awesome fabric from Lilac Lane in the SewMamaSew Giveaway Day. I was pretty stoked to win, since there were hundreds of entrants to each giveaway I visited. So I'm looking forward to getting that package in the mail, thanks Lilac Lane!

When I want to pick up a new little project but don't know what to do, I usually stand at my ironing board pressing fabrics- fat quarters or scraps or any little leftovers- until inspiration hits. I wound up with 6 fat quarters, cut them up and made half square triangles with them.


Then I had moments of pure joy playing with the squares and realizing that I have soooo many possibilities for layout.
I can do squares:



Or stripes:


Or pinwheels:


Or alternate the triangles:


There's probably even more I can do. How am I going to decide? The fun part will be piecing them all together. I don't think it'll wind up to be very big, so I don't know what I'll do with it, but sometimes it's more about the process than the end results. And sometimes it's the other way around.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Wendy...you didn't leave an email for me to reach you with your Moda Bake Shop comment so I thought I'd answer you back here! Simple solution: just cut seventeen 2.5" pieces from your 15th strip instead of four in step 4! Hope this helps!!
    Jamie

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